Witchcraft based on objectivist notions of deviance

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Read, D. (Director). (2009). The Burning Times. National Film Board of Canada. (Running Time: 56:10).

In what ways were accusations of witchcraft based on objectivist notions of deviance? For example, were certain people persecuted as witches because they were in some sense statistically rare? Because they were argued to cause harm of some kind? Because they violated norms? Because of a negative societal reaction?

In what ways were those objectivist criteria not present? For example, could we also argue that the people who were persecuted as witches were not statistically rare, did not cause harm, etc.?

From a more subjectivist point of view, how did accusations of witchcraft relate to the power structures and power struggles of the time? For example, what was the role of the Catholic Church, the Protestant Reformation, feudalism, capitalism, patriarchy, urbanization, and science? How did people in positions of power benefit - or hope to benefit - from the witch persecutions?

How can the three steps in the social typing process (i.e., description, evaluation, prescription) be applied to the witch persecutions?

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